- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 12:28:52 +0200
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Cc: www-style@w3.org
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >Robin Berjon wrote: >>>> As said in the archived posts: it is no problem for todays user-agents >>>> to use XPath >>> >>> I think it would be a problem. As it goes against all CSS parsing rules. >> >> Not if you put it in a string. > >I'm not sure I understand. Selecting previous-siblings, parent/ancestor >elements, et cetera. CSS is designed around a model that XPath is not >compatible with. Determining which declarations apply to a specific element is something that happens long after "parsing rules". It easy to implement in fact, the problems are rather possible performance and user experience issues (which selectors like :last-of-type have, too). -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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